Ali ( Persian: علی) or, Ali of Ghazna (علی غزنه) was a

Sultan Sultan (; ar, سلطان ', ) is a position with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", derived from the verbal noun ', meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it ...

of the

Ghaznavid Empire The Ghaznavid dynasty ( fa, غزنویان ''Ġaznaviyān'') was a culturally Persianate society, Persianate, Sunni Islam, Sunni Muslim dynasty of Turkic peoples, Turkic ''mamluk'' origin, ruling, at its greatest extent, large parts of Persia, ...

, he succeeded from his nephew Mas'ud II, and he was the son of Mas'ud I, he ruled for short period (1048–1049), Although Abdur Rashid sent an army led by his vizier to Sistan to arrest Ghaznavi , the vizier changed sides and defeated Ali and replaced him with Abd al-Rashid and he was killed in 1050.

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{{Ghaznavid sultans Ghaznavid sultans 11th-century monarchs in Asia 1049 deaths Year of birth unknown